Sim Sang-jeung, at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Monday morning, shortly before announcing she wouldn’t run for president.

Someone else dropped out of the South Korean presidential race on Monday in hopes of helping the candidate from the main opposition Democratic United Party – though without getting nearly as much attention as the withdrawal of independent candidate Ahn Cheol-soo did.

Sim Sang-jeung, candidate for the Progressive Justice Party, announced her withdrawal in a news conference at the National Assembly building Monday afternoon. The party is a spinoff from the United Progressive Party, which splintered earlier this year over whether or not to criticize North Korea. (Ms. Sim is from the camp willing to point out North Korea’s human rights problems and lack of democracy.)

On Monday morning, she held a news conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club, where the first question she faced was whether she’d stay in the race. She didn’t answer directly, suggesting instead that she was sitting on the fence and that it was being discussed at “the highest levels” of her party and the DUP.

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She then went on to tell the foreign correspondents about her plans after getting elected president. Among them: a reinvestigation of the sinking of the warship Cheonan, which the South Korean government concluded was ripped in two by a North Korean torpedo.

In her announcement a short time later at the parliament building, Ms. Sim said she would support the DUP’s nominee Moon Jae-in. A person identified only as a party insider told the Yonhap News Agency, “There will be a need to determine what joint policy measures can be pursued together.”